ticker
noun
1 ticker
The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body.
synonyms: heart, pump.
Roget 532:
news;
information
etc.
527;
piece of news [Fr.],
budget of news,
budget of information;
intelligence,
tidings.
word,
advice,
aviso [Sp.],
message;
dispatch,
despatch;
telegram,
cable,
marconigram†,
wire,
communication,
errand,
embassy.
report,
rumor,
hearsay,
on dit [Fr.],
flying rumor,
news stirring,
cry,
buzz,
bruit,
fame;
talk,
oui dire [Fr.],
scandal,
eavesdropping;
town tattle,
table talk;
tittle tattle;
canard,
topic of the day,
idea afloat.
bulletin,
fresh news,
stirring news;
glad tidings;
flash,
news just in;
on-the-spot coverage;
live coverage.
old story,
old news,
stale news,
stale story;
chestnut [Slang].
narrator
etc.
(describe)
594;
newsmonger,
scandalmonger;
talebearer,
telltale,
gossip,
tattler.
[study of news reporting]
journalism.
[methods of conveying news]
media,
news media,
the press,
the information industry;
newspaper,
magazine,
tract,
journal,
gazette,
publication
etc.
531;
radio,
television,
ticker
(electronic information transmission).
[organizations producing news reports]
[methods of conveying news]
United Press International,
UPI;
Associated Press,
AP;
The Dow Jones News Service,
DJ;
The New York Times News Service,
NYT;
Reuters [Brit.];
TASS [Rus.];
The Nikkei [Jap.].
[person reporting news as a profession]
newscaster,
newsman,
newswoman,
reporter,
journalist,
correspondent,
foreign correspondent,
special correspondent,
war correspondent,
news team,
news department;
anchorman,
anchorwoman†;
sportscaster;
weatherman.
[officials providing news for an organization]
press secretary,
public relations department,
public relations man.
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Dutch: lever, hart, rikketik, tikker, tikkertje
Polish: serce
2 ticker
A small portable timepiece.
synonym: watch.
Dutch: uurwerk, polshorloge, klok, horloge, klokje
Polish: zegarek
3 ticker
A character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape.
synonym: stock ticker.
Roget 799a:
stock market,
stock exchange,
securities exchange;
bourse,
board;
the big board,
the New York Stock Exchange;
the market,
the open market;
over-the-counter market;
privately traded issues.
commodities exchange,
futures exchange,
futures market.
the pit,
the floor.
ticker,
stock ticker,
quotation;
stock index,
market index,
the Dow Jones Index,
the Dow Industrials,
the transportation index,
utilities,
the utilities index;
the New York Stock Exchange index,
the Nikkei index [Jap.Tr.];
the Financial Times index,
the FTI [Brit.],
the over-the-counter index,
NASDAQ index.
[person or firm trading securities]
broker,
stockbroker,
jobber,
stock dealer,
odd-lot dealer;
specialist.
[person who buys or sells stocks]
investor,
speculator,
operator;
bull,
buyer;
bear,
short seller;
scalper,
arbitrager†,
arbitrageur†;
stockholder,
share-holder,
stockholder of record;
bond holder,
coupon-clipper [Sarc.].
investment;
speculation.
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